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Where you can find us

Birmingham

Formed in April 2006. Birmingham Science Park Aston near the city centre hosts NxtGenUG Birmingham. A great meeting place to discuss technology and eat Pizza!

Cambridge

Having opened in September 2007, Cambridge will offer a unique insight into Microsoft Research.

Coventry

Coventry venue has a bar and comfy chairs. With great meetings every month, what more could you ask for? Serving the Coventry community since April 2006.

Essex

Deepest Essex is the scene of the eighth NxtGenUG Region, poised just outside the M25, it's run by Rob Silver and Anis Batliwala local lads with a passion for technology

Hereford

NxtGenUG Hereford - Then there were six. Formed in February 2009 Hereford is the newest NxtGenUG Region. Run by local guys Ryan O'Neill and Richard Wilde.

Manchester

"It's a sunny paradise!" does not describe soggy Manchester; at least it has its own NxtGenUG region! Run by Steven Robbins and Andy Wilkinson, two northern guys with a passion for pizza/technology!

Oxford

Holding it's first meeting in November 2006, Oxford is headed up by the prfessional and enthusiastic Richie Hopton and BI Consultant Robert Minchin

Southampton

By the seaside, in the warmth of the South, NxtGenUG Southampton is run by John McLoughlin and Richie Allen, local guys with a passion for technology! Southampton started in October 2007.

Conferences

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Future NxtGenUG and third party event listing

February, 2012

This Androids Life (Oxford)	February 07
Ross Scott is starting our year with a talk about "This Androids Life". If you wanted to understand HTML5 and Phone Gap or even Java and Eclipse or .net and C# that can all be used on an Android device then this is a session that you cannot afford to miss. We of course will be serving Pizza, giving away great swag and maybe throw in a Nugget...

Continuous Integration (Hereford)	February 13
Paul Stack is coming to Hereford to talk about Continuous Integration. Pizza will be served an who knows we might also get a nugget!

Going native, iPhone edition (Manchester)	February 15
Rich Somerfield joins us to give an introduction to native iPhone development. We are starting 30 minutes later than normal

Straighten Spaghetti with C# 5 (Cambridge)	February 16
We're very excited to have the inimitable Jon Skeet with us for our second session of the year. Jon is bringing us a brain cell-bending session on asynchronicity. Remember folks, although Jon works as a software engineer for Google, he does not speak on their behalf. You may know of his book, C# in Depth, the second edition of which has been likened to "the first edition of C# in Depth, but with more bits" and is widely regarded as "shorter than most other C# books". High praise indeed! We're back to Microsoft Research this month with swag and some tasty pizza. Be sure to register early!

Going Global with MVC (Birmingham)	February 21
Top bloke, worldwide speaker and all round nice chap Guy Smith-Ferrier heads up the M5 to Birmingham to talk about his one true passion "Internationalisation"! Guy will show us how to internalise an MVC application. There'll might be a nugget, but there'll definitely be Pizza and Swag!

Being a Simple Nancy in WebDev (Southampton)	February 23
Mark Rendle heads down South once again, this time leaving his magicians hat behind, and bring down his killer web dev skills. He'll take us through development using Simple.Data and Nancy. Hopefully there'll be a nugget, definitely pizza and SWAG!

March, 2012

World Domination: ASP.NET MVC (Cambridge)	March 06
We are very happy to welcome back to Cambridge the wonderful Guy Smith-Ferrier. Our scholarly friend is bilingual in both Standard Geek and Modern Internationalisation. There aren't many people who can share this subject matter in an informative and interesting way, so we are very lucky to have the best in the business joining us to share his wealth of experience. We've got pizza and swag up the wazoo, so come and eat, drink and be merry at our March meeting!

Web Performance Triage (Hereford)	March 12
Marc Gravell is coming up from the deepest part of the Forest of Dean to talk about web performance and give us his insight into improving the performance of web servers. Marc is part of the development team for Stack Exchange (and a self-confessed Stack Overflow junkie), and has been a C# MVP for the last 4 years. He has a long history of open source projects, and tries to focus on high-performance, low-impact libraries (hiding all the "ugly" from app developers). We will be serving Pizza and hopefully a nugget!

The many tongues of MVC (Southampton)	March 15
Top chap, and all round ice guy Guy Smith-Ferrier heads down to sunny Southampton to talk about his one true passion, Origami. No, not really, it is in fact Internationalisation! Guy will show us how to internalise an MVC application. There'll might be a nugget, but there'll definitely be Pizza and Swag!

FubuMVC (Manchester)	March 21
Ian Battersby joins us to talk about FubuMVC, an open source web framework for .net.

April, 2012

Web caching 101 (Hereford)	April 09
Web caching 101 - a different perspective - When it comes to web sites, caching has been the most painful aspect of delivering web sites. At the same times, it's always been promoted as the best way to scale. Who to trust, what does caching means and how can proxies actually make your life easier and your site cheaper? If you want answers to those questions, and look at some cool code, this talk is for you! Pizza will be served

IIS 8.0 (Manchester)	April 18
Andrew Westgarth from NE Bytes comes down to give us the low down on IIS8.

May, 2012

CQRS and Event Sourcing (Manchester)	May 16
Ashic Mahtab comes up from London to talk about CQRS, Event Source and how it can bring Elegance to "Normal" Applications.

June, 2012

An Introduction to DDD (Manchester)	June 20
Ian Cooper travels up from London to enlighten us all about DDD !! Not to talk about the DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper events !! but Domain Driven Design!